If a man says he is a woman and walks into the women’s restroom, it is illegal for a business owner to intervene. That is the result of a new rule created by the Washington State Human Rights Commission that went into effect on December 26th.

This first-of-its-kind, statewide law is part of the recent push to frame gender-segregated bathrooms as an affront to “equality”. So far, the public hasn’t been buying it.

In November, the City of Houston, which has a lesbian mayor, voted against a city-wide, non-discrimimation ordinance that would have allowed men into women’s restrooms provided they claim to be a woman by a 22 point margin. Voters in Springfield, Missouri and Fayetteville, Arkansas have also repealed laws that would have opened up bathrooms in this way.

This issue has been heating up in Washington for a while now. School boards throughout Washington State have been wrestling with it. The YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap County recently made headlines when they created a policy allowing transgender men to use the women’s locker room under any and all circumstances.

However, this is the first statewide mandate that forces businesses to cooperate with a customer’s confusion about his or her gender.

In 2012, a 45 year-old student at Evergreen State College who identified as female despite being anatomically male, undressed in the women’s locker room while girls from nearby Olympia High School and a local swim club were changing. Evergreen chose to do nothing to protect the privacy of the girls but offered them a private accommodation if they wished not to dress in the presence of a naked man.

This new rule mandates that outcome in all cases.

While we sympathize with individuals who struggle with gender dysphoria, it isn’t appropriate to deny all women and girls their right to privacy in response.

The new rule specifically prohibits businesses and schools from creating a separate, gender neutral facility for use by those who prefer not to use the bathroom for their gender.

Concern over this policy does not imply that people with gender dysphoria are more likely to be sexual predators but acknowledges the reality that sexual predators are always looking for opportunities to gain access to victims. This policy creates undeniable and obvious opportunities.

If you believe this could never happen, simply search for Jason Pomares, Norwood Smith Burnes, or Taylor Buehler on the search engine of your choice.

The safety and security of every woman in Washington should not be placed at risk in an attempt to be politically correct. We should be compassionate for the real challenges people face, but we shouldn’t be stupid.

The rule also affects schools. Unlike businesses, schools are allowed to assess bathroom situations on a case-by-case basis. However, “In most cases, transgender students should have access to the locker room that corresponds to their gender identity consistently asserted at school.”

This arguably creates a conflict with the state’s indecent exposure law as well, which otherwise prohibits exposing yourself to others while “knowing that such conduct is likely to cause reasonable affront or alarm.” Or maybe women no longer have the right to be alarmed at the sight of a naked man in the women’s locker room.

While this rule was created through rule making authority delegated to the Human Rights Commission, the legislature has every right to fix this. And they should.

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Obama… IT IS WRONG
… to force men and women to have their nakedness exposed to “surprise visitors” of the other sex in sex-private changing rooms.
… to put them in a position where they can not avoid seeing the other gender uncovered.
… to force husbands and wives, who desire to remain covered from the opposite sex by all but their partner, into nakedness before other men and women.
… to take from parents the right of decision making in when it is appropriate for, and to what degree, their children to be exposed to the opposite sex + sexuality.
… to take from little ones & teens the right to chose to not disrobe before a member of the opposite sex, and their right to flee lust.
… to turn the safety of a school environment into a place of embarrassment, shame, lust, bullying and danger, where girls have to look at, talk to, and work with, the same hormone-raging males that look at her nakedness and expose themselves to her periodically.
… to force boys (many of whom who believe lust is wrong) to be tempted by the nakedness of the opposite sex – it is hard enough already in the school setting!
… to insist on the “right” of confused individuals to be able to expose themselves to whoever they please, and to ignore the right of every other individual to have a sex segregated privacy space.
… to force children to sleep in the same rooms with other sexes when it is against their own moral values.
… to take from parents the right to know (+ of veto) if their child will be sleeping in a room with the opposite sex on school trips.
… to force the normal person to use gender terms e.g “zee” referring to something that doesn’t exist, and is in rebellion to God.
… to force liberal evil upon a Christian (yes, still) nation. YOU declaring the passing of christianity does not make it so!

I doubt you have used a public restroom or a changing room in the last 80 years.. What nightmares of public facilities were you using that people were waving themselves around when you DID go?

Do you regularly hang on the nakedness of others in changing rooms? Do you specifically go to places where changing rooms like this exist?

Sir. I find you to be completely unhinged from reality.. Please seek professional help.. That or… I don’t know.. actually visit a public restroom or a locker room.. You have completely lost your purchase on consensus reality.

Furthermore.. I suggest you read that bible picking up dust in your home.. If you are professing to be a christian you are condoning a religion whose god has told people to kill their own children to prove their undying devotion. Christians are invariably repressed deviant hypocrites.

I feel that the only person who would for this is a sexual predator. The segregation of bathrooms is based on modesty and anyone who is willing to advertise they are gay to begin with is obviously lacking that quality. No! Persons feelings should take precedence over other peoples safety these people apparently think that opening up the woman’s bathrooms to any male who claims that they are in the wrong body is OK. I’m sure Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dimmer would have loved that opportunity. That is why I think that anyone voting for that is no better than a sexual predator. This is not about equality or sensitivity this is about the homosexual community seeing how far they can go. Just like any other organization with too much power. You hate people violating your right you are no better.

As a trans woman.. You yourself.. sound like a sexual predator.. If you can think of nothing while in the restroom except assaulting people or the nature of their sexuality.. It’s you who has sexually predatory tendencies..

I am sick of the “Trans”men/women trying to force every one in each state to agree with them. .To each their own but in reality?i have my own opine as they have their own,and i personally do not like this. I live in NC and i do not want my little girls, nieces,teen children(girls) and my mom a senior sharing a bathroom while out in public if warranted, with a MALE who is still yes anatomically a male,and even if he is not, i still don’t want it,and as some say no matter what surgery you’re having unless you can have a baby or had a child, you are a male period. and or unless you’re having your “monthly” you are still a guy. Bottom line? I think it should be Gender(trans)only bathroom.and that to me make the most sense.

It would make the most sense to not persecute people where a crime hasn’t been committed; but let’s be real here.. You don’t need a crime to be committed in order to have nasty thoughts towards a trans woman minding her own business. You would likely think it’s justified if a trans woman used the mens restroom and was then brutally beaten or murdered for doing so. Doesn’t matter to you right? Serves them right for being perverted freaks.

Let me weigh my options.. 1. The possibility of getting murdered by testosterone poisoned bros.. or 2. a nasty glare from an ignorant woman. I’ll take the glare..

WRONG. Businesses must let TRANS WOMEN in Women’s bathroom. Trans Women are Women. Stop with this inflammatory language and making this into something its not.

“The safety and security of every woman in Washington should not be placed at risk in an attempt to be politically correct. We should be compassionate for the real challenges people face, but we shouldn’t be stupid,” EVERY WOMAN. Including Trans Women.

Really? Are you going to make sure every man that walks into a woman’s restroom is actually transgender? If God made you a man, use the men’s restroom!! I don’t need to worry about those who lie and claim to be transgender, trying to rape or attack me and my little girls!

Are you going to make sure that every person who uses a restroom isn’t transgender? Where exactly where you going with that comment? How are you going to do either? With DNA checks? With stern and humorless groping of the genitals of strangers? Please..

Garonne my elderly mother had to leave the door open so she could be helped off and on the toilet and her clothes pulled up and down and sometimes even changed in the public bathroom. So where are her rights to be shielded from a man’s eyes because he is feeling girly?

Garon, the concern is not that a transgender pees next to a woman. The concern is that a rapist or pervert will pretend to be a transgender to get access to women and girls in order to rape, fondle, ogle, whatever. Exactly what about this do you not understand?

How do you consider “pretending to be transgender” any different than “pretending to be a woman”? In other words, any sicko could ALWAYS have been accessing the bathroom of their choice, this new law doesn’t change that. It does, however, help a small segment of your fellow humans go potty without being scrutinized by judgmental a-holes. Like you.

When a rapist rapes someone they should be punished for their crimes.. Are you saying that peeing or evacuating one’s bowels is as abhorrent as rape? Punishment should come after a crime is committed.. not before.

They don’t have to be transgender; they can even simply be cross-dressing for it to be legal per the new law (considering, as a woman, I frequently where jeans and a t-shirt, what does that even mean?!).

Honestly this is yet another way that women are being thrown away in this country. The Progressives don’t give a you know what about women, because they no longer value the mother. They no longer value the family. This is inviting rape, if you can’t see that, then I don’t know what type of world you live in. Perhaps there can be a “gender neutral” lockeroom option. I don’t understand why when girls are speaking up the Progressives are plugging their ears. Why is it that we are being asked to bend over backwards for a small minority in order to invite potential danger on our own daughters? It’s insanity. And there are other ways to address this issue.

CURIOUS, HOW DO YOU KNOW YOUR STATEMENT ” Trans Women are Women” TO BE A FACT? HAVE YOU CHECKED EACH ONE TO MAKE SURE THEY HAD THEIR PENIS CUT OFF? EVEN THEN, THEY’RE STILL BORN- AND DIE***** WITH MALE CHROMOSOMES, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT WOMEN. I CAN CUT MY NOSE OFF, CUT MY EARS OFF AND TATTOO LEOPARD SPOTS ALL OVER MY BODY, DOES THAT ME A LEOPARD?

You’re correct.. If a man kicked me in the genitals in an attempt to prove to me my gender.. I would have great clarity.. I could never claim to be the gender that physically harms people in order to keep them in line.. Men attempt to use violence when they can not think about things rationally..

I don’t think the American people have a real say in who gets in. It’s more like a very small number of people who would like to use issues like this to devide the people of this country for their own less than noble reasons.

Cancelled my longtime membership at the YMCA this morning. As much as I enjoy their facility, it is time to stand up for what is right. If we want our children, grandchildren and other loved ones safe from this kind of craziness, it’s time to actually make a stand!

I put my YMCA membership on hold for now.
Everyone has the right to be considered for membership and attend all programs at the YMCA without prejudice. The state law claims gender dysphoria is a disability and only reasonable accommodations are necessary. Private dressing rooms should be reasonable accommodation! Only women and small children should be in the women’s shower / dressing / rest rooms. Only men should be in the men’s locker room. I am not calling transgender people sexual predators, but sexual predators are VERY sneaky and this new policy invites trouble. I know this as an RN who cared for very diverse populations (including sexual predators) and as a woman who was once raped by a man who pretended to be my “safe gay friend.” This is a BIG safety issue!

Many people choose private dressing rooms for a variety of reasons, keeping small children corralled, those who need more room to fit assistive devices, those with body image problems – too fat, too skinny, scars, whatever (this should include gender dysphoria or transgenders). In the mean time, those who disagree with YMCA’s new policy should quit their membership or at least put it on hold until the YMCA either changes the policy or provides enough safe, private dressing areas for everyone who now needs one.

I understand no one wants to offend anyone these days, but this steps over the line of common sense and safety!

My response to this issue is this: unless you are pervy enough to purposefully look at other people in the restroom, you have no idea whether anyone there is of the “correct” gender. If everyone behaves themselves, no one will ever do anything to cause you to wonder.

The first problematic laws (i.e the ones to compel people to use the bathroom of their “birth” gender) weren’t driven by the desire to protect anyone but the desire to hurt “sinners”. If someone who looks like a man is forced to use the women’s restroom, there is a possibility that a woman with a concealed-carry permit will reach into her purse and shoot the “man”. For some people, even threats of murder are acceptable if you claim to be winning against transexuals.

For any such “christians”, I have a message: anyone who can invoke an “ends justify the means” argument has no grounding in the principles of their faith. The Ten Commandments don’t have any escape clauses. If you can’t find a a way to proceed that doesn’t violate them, that failure is on you; it’s nothing but hubris to claim that God will “understand” if you just scream your motives really loud.

Please help me out as I obviously missed something. Last time I checked, there are bathroom stalls with toilets in them in both the mens and the womens bathrooms. Why would a man need to use a toilet in the womens bathroom? What’s the difference? Isn’t a toilet a toilet? What right is being protected by this law? What “wrong” is being corrected? Is it offensive to have to walk past the urinals to get to the stall? As you said no one really pays attention so why would someone feel degraded by walking past the picture of a stick man instead of a stick woman to relieve themselves? Where is the injustice?

So.. interesting thing to note.. Men.. historically have a habit of perpetrating violence on those who don’t conform to their standards of masculinity.. Yes, there are stalls with toilets in both.. I am more likely to be beaten to death by using the men’s restroom because men are typically insecure about their sexuality. If they exist in both women’s and men’s restrooms.. Why do you care where I pee? What business is it of yours if I close the door on a stall and pee? Why is it ok to persecute me before I have committed a crime? Why are men so insistent in the belief that because they can not control their thoughts or actions that trans women are the same? We aren’t.. A great many of us transition because we are disgusted by the very nature of a gender that would accuse women of doing what men want to do to women. Sort your own repressed issues… We’re just going to the bathroom.

While you are correct that one cannot easily ID all transgender individuals, I can ID many transgender or homosexual folks with ease. My use or lack of use of a public restroom is dependent upon my comfort with the people within them and the condition of the restroom. My comfort is quite different around strangers than it is within my own home with people who are my friends or family.

This law causes me to be uncomfortable. I suspect females are quite different in this regard than males. It has nothing to do with being pervy, as you state. If I am dealing with a bad menstrual month, the last thing I want is a man — in any form — in what I consider private, personal space, where I am dealing with private, personal hygiene issues.

The most recent psychology articles do state that transgender is a psychological issue. That compounds the issue.

As of this day forward, I will no longer use a public restroom. And as a business owner, I will never provide a public restroom.

Oh the naivety of the left! Who is going to be sued when someone doesn’t behave themselves?

“Burnes exposed himself to children in a Walmart restroom in 2010 while Pomares dressed as a woman and snuck into a Macy’s bathroom to videotape women in 2013. Buehler wore a bra and wig and slipped into a bathroom and locker room in 2012 to watch woman at Everett Community College. All three men were arrested.”

You said: The first problematic laws (i.e the ones to compel people to use the bathroom of their “birth” gender) weren’t driven by the desire to protect anyone but the desire to hurt “sinners”. Please provide some evidence for that statement, because it sounds ridiculous to me. I think you’re just “Christian-bashing”.

How is it that it is okay for anyone, to force me, to allow anyone, to force upon me, your sexual identity problem, and yes I mean problem. I have rights too, OR AT LEAST I THOUGHT I USE TO HAVE RIGHTS. I would think that they would respect my right to privacy and not force me to expose myself to you or any other of the opposite sex. For them to think that none of this is threatening. TO ME THIS IS MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE.

my folks call it a identity-problem that should not be forced upon us so i agree with ROBIN wholly. I personally am sticking with “men or trans etc.al., just get a separate bathroom then.
Simple as that. so again i agree with your post Robin,. ICAM.
and nope. you’re still having RIGHTS, just exercise em more. and same as “they are” you exercise your rights too as much as you’re god willing able to. I hate when some 1 try to force some one belief(s)on me. It is not right.

Hmmm…so young female children observing a naked man in their bathroom is “pervy”? You need to consider all of the children that will unnecessarily be exposed to these gender confused individuals. Give them their own restroom. Or, give me and my children our own designated restroom and they can have the big public one.

This law is obviously disgusting, inhuman and satanic. But female reporters have long been allowed in men’s locker rooms after athletic contests at all levels; like its ok for women to see naked men undressing but not the other way around because “they aren’t looking.” Bottomline is that this society has completely broken down with no end in sight to the lunacy.

I own a fitness business. If this . Is a “LAW” I will do everything necessary to protect our women. I will not contribute to the delinquency of teens or children by allowing just anyone into the locker room of their choice. If their body indicates what they are physically then that is thwir ticket for where they need to change or take care of their needs and see others in a public type locker room. this could only hurt businesses like mine but more importantly the male and female members of our fitness community. Lets make sure this is not ever an enforceable law in our state or nation. Someone is very blind and confused to consider this appropriate.

THIS IS WHAT OBAMA WANTS –
HE WILL USE IT TO CALL MARTIAL LAW SO HE CAN HAVE ANOTHER HELL-BENT RANT AT THE WHITE-HOUSE,,,,, TO FINISH WHAT HE HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO BEGIN – THE END OF OUR COUNTRY.

STOP HIM.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE,,,, DO NOT ACQUIESCE.

WHERE IS “ANONYMOUS”?

HOLD STRONG OREGONIANS AND STAND FOR YOUR FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS AS PER OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.

SHOW OUR COUNTRY WE HAVE NOT GIVEN UP ON OUR ANCESTRAL BLESSINGS.
I AM IN PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION FOR ALL OF YOU AS WELL AS THE REST OF US WITH REGARD TO THIS GRAVE MOMENT IN OUR HISTORY – THIS COULD BE OUR 2ND CIVIL WAR.

MAY GOD BLESS ALL BRAVE SOULS WHO STAND AGAINST THIS TYRANNY AND EVIL, CORRUPTION OF A GOVERNMENT.

My entire family will be moving out of this liberally degraded, once-the-most-perfect-state due completely to the new law allowing men to come into women’s bathrooms – THIS IS NOT EQUALITY – THIS IS DISGUSTING, DISRESPECTFUL, DISENFRANCHISING, UN-PROTECTIVE OF EVERY WOMAN’S CIVIL RIGHTS, AND INSANE.

The idiots who approved this MOST unbelievable law for Washingtonians are OVER-THE-TOP NUTS AND UTTERLY REPULSIVE FOR HAVING APPROVED THIS PATHETIC ORDER. WHO THE HELL IS THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND WHAT FREAK PUT THEM IN CHARGE OF ANYTHING,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH NORMAL PERSONS?

This is not alarming, it’s appalling – IT’S UNACCEPTABLE AND IT’S OUTRAGEOUS. We’re out of here. Washington is filled with freaks from the curb to the top,,, how gross to see it go this way. Of course, evil always try’s to ruin the most beautiful of God’s creations – once, that was Washington. The liberal desecration of our societal directive has destroyed this state. SHAME ON EVERY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH THIS NEW AND SINFUL ATTACK ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS TO PRIVACY AND PROTECTION. LET THE LAW SUITS BEGIN.

NO TROLLING HERE.
Europe for Europeans.
India for Indian peoples.
Russia for Russian peoples.
Mexico for Mexican peoples.
Africa for African peoples.
America for American-BORN citizens.
AND,,,
SINCE OUR AMERICAN-BORN CITIZEN BASE IS SUFFICIENT TO MANAGE AND MAINTAIN OUR COUNTRY,,,
I FEEL OUR COUNTRY SHOULD STOP ALL IMMIGRATION – NO MORE NEW CITIZEN’S FOR AT LEAST 10 YEARS.
Look at the numbers in 10 years and then, determine if we should remain a “CLOSED COUNTRY”.
Visitors are welcome but after a fair, per-determined amount of time for said visit, they MUST leave America.

AMERICA CAN NOT SUSTAIN THE ENTIRE WORLDS POPULATION NOR SHOULD WE TAKE ON SO MANY FOREIGNERS THAT OUR OWN CITIZEN’S SUFFER LACK.

sadly whole countries have implemented such laws and NYC just passed a law that makes it illegal to knowingly refer to a trangender person by pronouns associated with their birth sex. you can be fines up to $250K for breaking the law.

I am actually shocked to hear that Washington state has a Human Rights Commission. Truly frightening. Big Brother, the Thought Police. “Boohoohoo, you HURT my feelings; I’m gonna run home to mommy; better yet, I’m gonna run to the Human Rights Commission and you will pay, pay, pay.” What a tragically weak society we have become! Truly pathetic. A big bunch of mentally deranged babies.

http://breastfeedinglaw.com/federal-law/
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a woman may breastfeed her child at any location in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the woman and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at the location. -This “LAW”
discriminates against men who want to breast feed their babies with their own breasts in public. How much nourishment do you think a 3 month old child would get from a man who identifies as a “woman?”

If you are reading this contribution, what you are witnessing in our once great soiety is the results of disfunctionality gone wild. Metaphorically, this is what happens when all the players are legally allowed to bring their own goal posts to the game and have equal rights to have their goal post recognized. It would appear to anyone who respects their Mother that The Rule Makers are in dire need of a checkup from the neck-up. Is it wisdom to establish rules and policies based on a false premises or false equivalencies? Google/Research the question, “Are you still beating your wife?”

Congrats.. You’re the predatory person that trans people get blamed for being.. If people like you didn’t exist.. People like us wouldn’t get persecuted for attending to their bodily functions.. You are the opportunistic male that sees trans women leading productive lives and decides to profit. You’re the rapist that rationalizes their actions by what other people “get to do”.

When transgender individuals are given a choice that other people don’t have, it’s discriminatory. You’re saying that men belong in their facilities, and women belong in a separate location, but transgender individuals can go wherever they want. This is like the racial segregation laws, where white people were given decisions that others were not.

If you want to argue that men’s facilities are less safe, less hospitable, or less adequate in any respect, then you are implying that either men are a certain way because of their gender, or that the men’s facilities are inferior to the women’s. The first assumption is sexist. The second assumption is a violation of equal access laws.If either assumption is true, then allowing transgender individuals a choice that men don’t have is no different than allowing white people a choice that black people did not have. Women don’t have a choice either.

Other people could benefit from having a choice. Unaccompanied children, mentally disabled, or any other individual who runs a higher risk of being a target of sexual misconduct or harassment.

In the meantime, the women and children who have traditionally used the women’s facilities are the only group that will lose privacy. The phrase, “women and children first’ loses all meaning with this new proposition.

I can’t go where I want.. I don’t get a choice.. I have an F on my ID.. I wear women’s clothing exclusively.. What choice exactly are you speaking of? Do you think I choose based on mood? No.. I stand awkwardly in lines to use the women’s restroom even when the men’s is available.. I correct people who assume I needed the male door key. Being trans isn’t a lark we use to get around social conventions.. It’s a commitment we make to follow social conventions whether or not we feel scared about the situation we are in. The idea that trans people manipulate social conventions in order to skirt the law for nefarious sexual purposes is one that is exclusively championed by ignorant cis people.

The Joke AKA Washington State Human Rights Commission can claim whatever they’d like is law. This would not happen in a business that I owned. I “WOULD intervene and there is nothing that can be done about that. God’s law before man’s law. End of story

AT THAT POINT,,,, THE “HE OR SHE”,,,, IS REALLY AN “IT”.
YOU WON’T BE THE ONLY ONE SMART ENOUGH TO SELF-DEFEND WITH A GUN.
How pathetic that women of Washington state are now forced to put up with men in their PRIVATE restrooms. WHAT’S WRONG WITH MALES THESE DAYS?
Why would they even want to be in OUR domain?
These FREAKS should NOT have ANY RIGHTS TO OUR RESTROOMS.
If they don’t want to go into the MEN’S restroom,,, then they should go out to the bushes.

Thank you for making your intentions clear.. Just so I have the details.. Is walking into an unused stall considered trying something? How about peeing? how about washing my hands? Or is breathing sufficient excuse for you to murder me?

I marvel that things that are obvious are always ignored when the small in number seek to have what they imagine. In this case, the small in number are those who feel that they are a gender psychologically different than they are physically, and those that speak for them. The small in number ignore all the dangers and equally potent concerns of the majority so that they can they can have freedoms forcibly given them to make them feel fairly treated.

I have said it unquestionably true, so who dares to say it isn’t true. Now, is forcing the majority to allow any risky behavior justice? The discomfort of the small in number in this case is something they are born with or have developed that is without purpose in the development of the society of human beings. They may accept it and embrace it, and they may love themselves with their uniqueness, but it will still be an affliction to them more than if they were entirely one gender. This burden is inherently theirs, and no amount of legal actions or declarations will benefit society and their comfort level mutually. Law makers must either favor the few and treat unjustly the many or they must ignore the sometimes silent complains of the few and deal consistently with the many. There is simply no form of equality that possible to administer through the law in this subject.

I concur. Let’s dismantle this “human rights commission” with instant and desiive measures. I will be looking into filing a class-action law suit. If you want to stand with me and other women against this tyranny and danger to all women, please email me at gmail,,, just use the same name I used here.

We need to ban together and stop this. REAL men can help us too; I’m certain there are many husbands who don’t want this for their wives,,, brother’s who don’t want it for their sisters, and Fathers who don’t want it for their daughters.

This article needs a lot of clarification. I found the WAC that its referring to when that article mentions “The new rule specifically prohibits businesses and schools from creating a separate, gender neutral facility for use by those who prefer not to use the bathroom for their gender.”

The WAC DOES NOT prohibit a business from creating a gender neutral restroom; it actually encourages provisions for privacy. It simply states that a business cannot REQUIRE a trans person to use a gender neutral facility, but rather that facility must be made available to ANY individual desiring privacy.

Also with regards to primary and secondary education institutions the WAC indicates as follows: “School districts and other primary and secondary schools should assess the use of locker rooms by transgendered students on a case-by-case basis, with the goals of maximizing the student’s social integration and equal opportunity, ensuring the student’s safety and comfort, and minimizing the stigmatization of the student. In most cases, transgender students should have access to the locker room that corresponds to their gender identity consistently asserted at school.”

In MOST CASES students should have access to the facilities that best correspond with their gender identity, this isn’t necessarily a guarantee.

These are amendments to RCW 49.60, the Revised Code of Washington that GUARENTEES us Freedom from discrimination. To expect protection under 49.60 for oneself but feel it unnecessary to extend that same protection to others based on a differences in race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, sex, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sensory, mental, or physical disability is ludicrous.

One final thought… RCW 49.60 is also the same code that protects a mothers’ right to breastfeed her child in public. Business are BOYCOTTED if they ask a woman to “cover up” or use the “family” restroom when she breastfeeds her child. If people are uncomfortable with a mother breastfeeding in a public establishment, they are encouraged to avert their eyes or leave the establishment because it is THEM who has the issue, it is THEM that have the problem. Not the mother.

If you are uncomfortable with trans people using the restroom they best identify with it I suggest you do the same and avert your eyes or leave the establishment because it is YOU that has the issue, it is YOU that has the problem. Not the trans person.

I can appreciate your effort to defend the new legal changes. Have you considered the context of the laws enforcement? If the freedom to behave how we want is granted to some people at the cost of intimidating and controlling others, is it suitable to grant such freedom on all public property? You have a point that the new law is a useful guideline for many establishments and peoples chosen life-styles in Western Washington, yet every time you force people to face a threat of legal action against them if they try to uphold the interests and wellbeing of the public you weaken its enforceability and create a new obstruction of preventing criminal behavior.

Your argument would be much more convincing if it did not emphasize your opposition to the average person (majority) with healthy and normal sexual boundaries. Since there are two sides to the debate, you cannot simply label wrongdoing on someone because they are of an opposing opinion and expect anyone to listen. I suggest that you develop a strong statement that is not designed as a one sided force of contention. In developing that you will naturally have a stronger opinion to convince your associates with, and be pleased with as well.

So when a man walks into a locker room or bathroom and reveals his penis to your daughter, watches her change clothes, etc., you and her will just avert your eyes and simply leave the establishment? Don’t you see that this doesn’t have much to do with the transgenders, but rather more to do with the predators that will use stuff like this to gain access to their victims? Besides that, if people have the RIGHT to decide which gender facility to use, then why can’t business owners have the RIGHT to decide for themselves whether or not they will support it? If the transgenders/supporters don’t like what facilities a business offers then why can’t they be the ones to avert their eyes or leave the establishment???

Of course you pose a false scenario to scare people. If a transgender woman walks into the women’s locker room, she will almost certainly change in private. I can’t recall seeing group showers in a ladies locker room in the last 20-30 years. (Maybe they’re still common in men’s locker rooms?). People shower in private.

Don’t target transgender people when your real fear is non-trans men. As the examples above showed, predators don’t need a non-discrimination law to try sneaking into the ladies.

How do you feel about a balding, bearded, muscular transman walking into the ladies behind your daughter or your wife? Opponents of equal protection concentrate on transwomen but often forget the roughly equal numbers of transmen. Everyone has to pee somewhere.

If you are truly concerned about predators sneaking into the ladies, ask yourself this: is it easier for the average male predator to imitate a transwoman who probably has had years of hormone therapy (BTW rendering her incapable of attacking another woman even if she is pre-op) or imitate a hairy muscular bearded transman?

You ask this question: “How do you feel about a balding, bearded, muscular transman walking into the ladies behind your daughter or your wife?”

I’m gonna answer you!

FIRST OF ALL,,, Just the pathetic image your description conjures was enough to make the tea in my stomach curdle.

If such a “thing” walked into the LADIES/WOMEN’S PRIVATE TOILET FACILITIES behind me – I would WANT to turn around and blow his knee caps off so he couldn’t do it again.

HOWEVER, that’s not my style, I don’t break the laws and I don’t hurt others intentionally. I am RESPECTFUL OF OTHERS AND THEIR RIGHTS TO PRIVACY, RESPECT, KIND CONSIDERATION, AND SO ON AND SO ON AND SO ON. YOU KNOW, THE GOLDEN RULE.

NO,,,, I’d just end up giving him a piece of my mind, as I am doing here, and then I’d WALK OUT OF THAT ESTABLISHMENT AND NEVER, NEVER RETURN.

I really don’t think that’s the issue. It opens the door for predators who will use this law to gain access to victims. It’s the open locker rooms where people are showering and changing that has me the most concerned.

The restrooms in question don’t have locks on them.. Do… you not understand that nothing is currently stopping men from doing this anyway and that dressing up in women’s clothes is actually more effort to go through when men could just assault women without having to get dressed up. Persecute rapists AFTER a crime has been committed.. don’t persecute trans women who have no intention of committing any crimes.

Where have you been?
ALL the “agenda’s and measures” of these perverted souls are HATE CRIMES.
HATE CRIMES against God-fearing MORALLY SANE people.

Of course, as has been the case the entire time this has been happening,,,, the proverbial “finger” being pointed is in the direction of NORMAL people instead of being pointed in the right direction: at the freaks.

I would posit that “god fearing” people are neither ethical, moral, or sane.. If you’re behaviour is dependent upon fearing a god in order to be a good person.. You are a piece of work. (I paraphrase)..

You fear your god? How sad.. I have no reason to fear my Goddess, because she would never hurt me in order to control.. If your god is kind and loving.. why would you fear him? If you fear your god.. what has he done to show you his kindness?

I’m sorry your god has taught you nothing but repression, shame, and fear.. Don’t worry though.. The Goddess loves you without condition.. Even if you choose to worship her ungrateful and blind son. The Goddess guides with love.. Your god controls through hate.

In June, a national high school debate league announced that their 2016 national tournament would be held in WA, providing a boost in revenue for businesses that provide food, lodging, and office supplies in the area where the tournament is held. Recently, though, we were informed that the location of the tournament would be moved to OK due to “unforeseen circumstances.” After reading this article, I think it is pretty clear what those “unforeseen circumstances” are.
Washingtonians, please let your legislators know that your businesses are losing revenue because of this policy.

Happy New Year to All the sane people writing in this realm; may the ears that need to hear, eye’s that NEED to see,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, REALIZE OUR COUNTRY IS FAILING AND IT’S BECAUSE OF THESE “AGENDA’S”.

Thank you for your commentary as it is that of which any real change may proceed from – after all,, even beyond the LIBERALS need to take care of their own (the freaks),,, they seek to gain not only attention,,, but money too,,,, especially the bureaucrats.

Not only is Washington going to see a rise in crime and hostility due to this measure,,, the state is also going to see an exodus of proportions as “those of us who have sanity thriving within our minds and souls”,,, WILL NOT STAY WHERE THIS ABOMINATION OCCURS.

This has got to be one of the most stupid things we have ever done as a society. Why are we wasting our time and money on such idiotic laws? As a people have we gone completely mad? Just step back and look at this action and try to find any amount of wisdom. If this is all the “benefit” we can expect out of local government, its time to rethink the need. This is not being inclusive nor showing love or kindness to anyone; this is just plain being stupid! I believe as a society we will pay the price for such poorly thought-through behavior. We had better get hold of some kind of beneficial moral compass and start using it!

I appreciate your intelligence.
This matter has me extremely upset
because I’m planning on leaving the place
of my life,,, the forests of my path.

I HATE,,, NO,,,, I ABHOR THAT THE EVIL PERPETRATOR OF THESE MEASURES IS ABLE TO FORCE MY HAND THAT WAY. “IT”, IS FORCING ALL OF OUR HANDS.

GOD’S PEOPLE MUST BEGIN STANDING INSTEAD OF THE OPPOSITE OR WE ARE DOOMED.

I know, by way of Bible study, “deliberate” seeking of truth, and leaving myself open for his will, that GOD, THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, doesn’t want “HIS OWN” to just sit back and take this. NO. I sense he wants us to stand against these things of injustice and wrong-doing just as THE RISEN CHRIST, JESUS OUR LORD, DIVINE AND RIGHTEOUS SAVIOR stood against the money-changers in the church – THE House of The Almighty & Omnipotent GOD, Our FATHER.

What form of or accomplishment as “Warriors of THE MOST HIGH GOD” can we claim if we do not defend that which GOD has given us?

He has given us intelligence.
He has given us codes of conduct: RESPECT, HONOR, PROTECT.
He has given us COMMON SENSE.

While I am not confused that I was provided by our creator with the proper plumbing, it seems that this articled only addresses that issue. So, when I saw the title I that this was going to address the issue of accompanying my wife into the woman’s comfort room to assist her. She is an invalid and requires assistance. There are businesses that we visit that only have the male of female heads. There are others that have “family rooms”. We visited one that did not have the “family room” and my wife needed assistance. It is normally our practice to announce that there will be a male presence in the female comfort room, and we hear the acceptance, especially when they see me pushing my wife’s wheel chair in. During one such visit, a women that came into the female restroom after we were already there decided it wasn’t right and fetched security, By the time my wife was finished and I was assisting her to finish up and leave there were 4 security personnel in there with us. We had a little chuckle about the whole thing. The business had several restrooms that this person could have chosen to use, but instead she chose to make an issue of it. The security personnel didn’t have a problem with it, they merely suggested that the next time we get one of them to accompany us to the restroom so they can clear it for us. Not a problem, and we haven’t that business with our presence since then.

So let me get this straight; some men think they don’t have the private parts they were born with and so they are insisting the public turn a blind eye to their true gender because they might have an emotional breakdown? This sounds like mental illness. For the state to make a law criminalizing businesses for interfering will create more problems. Especially when predators start taking advantage of this law and assaulting women.

Friend (or foe), do you realize this new law comes from a flawed worldview based on feelings above logic. With government issuing such laws, we are no longer a government by the people for the people, but rather a progressive socialist society. We (the good citizens of this state) need to challenge this law and protect other citizens (especially vulnerable women and children and school children in public schools) who come into their establishment. This is a time to resist stupid laws and fight them in court. If my daughters ever are violated because of said law, I will sue the state, and so should you.

There is nothing in the law about trans people having an “emotional breakdown”. This is not about “feelings”. This is about safety. Most trans people do not look like the gender they were assigned at birth. Most cannot obtain surgery, either for financial reasons, health reasons, or because for trans men, the surgery is technically extremely difficult. No one is checking our underwear. Most trans people use the bathroom associated with the gender the identify as, and no one is the wiser. Requiring trans people to use the bathroom associated with the gender assigned at birth poses a much higher danger risk (they will look like the dont belong there).

Who said anything about ‘beating up’? And knock of the ‘bigotry’ crapola. I am tired of liberals branding anything they disagree with as ‘bigotry’ or ‘hate’. And by the way, your African American example was silly. One is BORN black, but NOT trans-sexual. Grow up.

@Clark: “Trans gender folks using the wrong restroom will soon REALLY learn about ‘danger risk’. Wake up.” This implies “beating up” or some infliction of harm. What “danger risk” did you have in mind if not beating someone up?

YES. THEY BETTER BE VERY CAREFUL BECAUSE WOMEN ARE NOT GOING TO TOLERATE THIS ABUSE.

ANYONE WHO’S AS WEAK A PERSON AS IT WOULD TAKE TO DISMANTLE THEIR MINDS, THEIR BODIES, AND THEIR PERCEPTIONS TO THE DEGREES THESE FREAKS DO,,, TO BECOME THESE FREAKS,,,,
COULD BE EASILY TAKEN ON BY MOST WOMEN.

YOU SEE, WOMEN CAN BE AS LIKE A CAT: VERY FEROCIOUS, VERY PROTECTIVE, AND VERY READY.

These are mixed up men or women who’ve lost touch with their source.
Confused and needing mental help, they are not as good of citizen’s as those of us who keep GOD’S ordinances. If they don’t repent, they are going to burn in very hot, very real, flames. The torture of which, none can imagine.

If you are a “trans person”,,,, my advise,,,,,, fall to knees and beg for forgiveness,,, then walk away from your bondage and be WHO YOU WERE BORN TO BE,,, not who the “long-tongued” liar has you thinking you’re supposed to be.

I’m pulling for you,,,, and, we’re NOT all in this together; many of us are in direct opposition to your liberal lifestyles and degrading behaviors.

Hate to interrupt your rant with facts but you haven’t done your research. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), the bible of what is and is not a mental illness, specifically states that gender dysphoria is not a mental illness. EVERY major medical group that has a policy on this issue agrees that gender dysphoria is not a mental illness and that transition is the best treatment.

I am more than happy to interrupt your rant. I could care less what your bible claims. THE Bible (capital ‘B’) states otherwise. God could care less what EVERYBODY says; that is why He is God. Go peddle your bilge at another forum.

I am actually wondering why Washington state has a Human Rights Commission. A truly scary thought. Sounds like Canada, where folks are fined outrageous sums because they express an opinion that “offends” someone. How tragically weak our populace has become. “Boohoohoo, you hurt my feelings; I’m going to sue you; better yet, I will sic the Human Rights Commission on you and you will pay, pay, pay!!!”

ALL BUSINESSES NEED TO CLOSE THEIR BATHROOMS UNLESS A RESTAURANT> If a restaurant-just add some porta potties out in the parking lot. EVERYONE who has to deal with the law needs to GET TOGETHER AND DO THIS TO STOP THIS NONSENSE!!

The solution for many businesses may well end up being the remodeling of all restrooms to accommodate only one person at a time, with a deadbolt lock on the door. In the recent past people with Chron’s disease (a serious bowel disorder) were denied the use of the nearest restroom, but now these guys can waltz in wherever they like?

I would rather serve the goddess than serve a spiteful vain child god who tells his followers to murder his own children to prove their love.. You call me sick.. But you would rather see me murdered than see me quietly and humbly walk into a stall in the women’s facilities.

This is not really LAW.. because it has not been enacted through the democratic process of our lawmakers discussing, calling for pubilc input, etc. This is not law it is tyranny, and a very sick version of it.

Our legislature must take action to reel back in these perverts. I’d also urge them to see about removing those who voted in favour of this insanity. They are not fit to rule over the People of Washington

When the article stated that businesses wishing to use a gender neutral restroom by way of a solution would be regarded as in violation of the law, you have to seriously wonder what the true motivation behind the law is. It would seem to me that a third restroom would be a logical and safe choice, but to specifically bar that option in the wording to me is suspicious – like we’re not really trying to solve the problem, but are trying to promote a change in society.

Sorry, but I will have a problem the moment someone of such a description follows one of my daughters into the restroom.

Elmer, don’t be the least bit sorry. If some obviously male individual follows your daughter into the loo, walk right in behind him, If anyone says a thing, glare at them and point to the creep. If THAT can be in here, THIS can too. Stay until it leaves, or your daughter does.

If you walk into the ladies (I assume from your post and tone that you’re male), I’m calling security and the cops. I don’t care if you’re following your daughter or if you’re following a woman that you don’t think looks feminine enough. You don’t know if she’s a non-transgender masculine-looking woman, a post-op transgender woman, or a pre-op transwoman. Women should not have to look pretty enough to you to avoid having you crash the ladies room.

Calling a person an “it” is a great way to dehumanize her or him and makes it easier for you or others to assault or even kill her or him.

To be blunt, I’m a lot more scared of you barging into the ladies breathing fire and ready to do violence than I am of a transwoman who walks in peacefully to pee.

It would put undue financial stress on businesses that were too small to implement third restrooms.. It would be doing this for a section of the population that is scared that a thing MIGHT happen. You could legislate for three bathrooms.. Or cis people could get over their perverse ideas about trans bathroom use and just let us use the restroom in peace. You don’t actually want to solve the issue either.. You just want to feel good about railing against an issue that doesn’t actually exist..

Seriously.. get over yourselves… If you are having perverse thoughts while using public facilities.. seek help..

Just another injustice against women
Here again we are being treated as second class citizens
I hope this means that the WA Human Rights Commission is responsible and accountable for any harm to women.

That’s EXACTLY what it is going to mean.
Once this TYRANNY becomes full-fledged crime reports, the WA Human Rights Commission WILL be called upon in court proceedings. Make no mistake – they are the group directly responsible for any ill that will befall women from this ludicrous and sickening turn of events.

You don’t speak for all women.. and I have been welcomed into the women’s restroom and accepted nearly every time I’ve used a public restroom.. The times I haven’t been welcomed I have seen the look of disappointment on the faces of women who looked for a problem with anxious trans girls trying to use the restroom, wash and leave..

Have a problem with actual assault.. have a problem with actual crimes.. But if you have a problem.. with people with small bladders.. actually peeing in a women’s stall while minding their own business.. That’s clearly your problem alone.

Apples.. Oranges.. Societal titles based on heirarchy have nothing to do with medical conditions that are confined to the hormonal systems.. You can identify as whatever you like.. Identify as a helicopter for all I care.. When you do so.. Don’t forget to top yourself off with diesel.

Ridiculous. You don’t see women requesting to use the men’s bathroom. Most businesses have unisex “one room” private bathrooms which are acceptable. But, women’s restrooms with stalls should remain off limits to all males over the age of six.
While you are correct the Legislature can fix this, they shouldn’t have to waste their time on this issue; especially with a Governor who is just as sick as the sickos promoting this. The. Legislature should be fixing roads, bridges, etc. and working to comply with voter approved education mandates. This entire discussion is depraved and actually makes me sick just thinking about my 13 year old granddaughter having to deal with something like this. AT LEAST FILE AN INJUNCTION AGAINST THIS RULE!!!

Women’s restrooms.. Like mens.. Have stalls.. It’s obvious that you don’t have any real objection other than “trans people are sickos”. Why is it that fear mongers always project on to other people that which is going through their own heads?

I have just learned that anatomically male customers and employees must be allowed to use the restrooms or locker rooms (facilities) of the opposite anatomical sex if they claim they identify as the sex opposite of their anatomy. Alternatively, I suppose this ruling applies to anatomically female customers who identify as male, but doubt that it will actually happen that way. My estimate is that the VAST, VAST MAJORITY of those who wish to use opposite-anatomy facilities will be male…

I find this ruling repulsive and dangerous. I could count the ways, but trust that any reasonable person does not need to be told the reasons as they are obvious to anyone with common sense. OK, I will spell out one: There is no way (zero) to unambiguously and impartially and for certain, TEST what a person’s sexual identity is. There IS, however, a way to unambiguously and for certain TEST a person’s anatomical gender. Therefore, this ruling opens up a legal way for someone who is pretending to be of a different gender-identity than their anatomical gender to infringe on the privacy and safety rights of other citizens of this state. In addition, this ruling REQUIRES those who object to seek out facilities which are ‘gender neutral’, thus infringing on their freedom, and stigmatizing them as ‘intolerant’ or ‘bigoted’ for simply protecting themselves from this obvious threat to their own privacy and safety.

Please either sponsor or support legislation to reverse this ruling at the EARLIEST POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY. The rights and safety of the many outweigh the concerns for the very few.

You are in effect arguing for legislation that criminalizes already criminal behavior. There are already laws on the books against rape.. How would anything be accomplished by persecuting people for the crimes that men fantasize that we do? I will be blunt.. The fantasy that men in womens clothing will assault women in the restroom is a fantasy that men have in order to make themselves feel like they are protecting people from the gross thoughts they are themselves having.

This is pure “********”. Why not require three restrooms. The “HE”, the “SHE” and the “IT”. If these trans-sexual people have not had the surgery to complete their transition, they are still male, and should not be allowed in a woman’s restroom. Sorry, the door doesn’t swing both ways just because you have a mental problem.

Even if they have the surgery, all they’ve done is mutilate themselves. You will always be the gender you were when you were born. Despite that fact that is trendy to say there isn’t, there is, in fact, as gender binary. You can only be male or female. There’s no in between, and you can’t switch.

This idea was tried before. In the past the 3 signs on the door were “Men”, “Women”, and “Colored”. (Sorry — historically that’s what they said). Again it was because some people didn’t want others that were different sharing bathrooms for a lot of made up reasons.

Separate but equal wasn’t fair or equal then and it’s not fair or equal now.

Except that blacks are born black and trans-genders are not born trans-gender. Epic fail for an analogy. Start over. And by the way, male and female bathrooms are both properly separate and equal. Get over it.

I was born trans, thank you very much… and there no evidence that “men” use the women’s restrooms in order to expose themselves to women or children. Trans women use the facilities and leave. If you are thinking about children and women when you use the restroom.. That’s on you.. Trans people shouldn’t be required to subject themselves to beatings just because there are men out there that fantasize about going into women’s restrooms and then rationalizing that because they have shitty thoughts trans women also have these thoughts. If you go into a restroom to assault people.. That is what should be punished. If people are so concerned with protecting people in restrooms.. They might consider auditing how they think about women and children going into restrooms.. If you’re thinking disgusting thoughts about them.. That’s on you.. It has nothing to do with trans women. I have an F on my ID. I use the restroom appropriate to my presentation, I wash my hands, and I leave. No ignorant perv projecting their desires onto trans women is going to threaten my ability to relieve myself.

There is a different in disallowing someone access to your space because you hate them and disallowing them access because you feel endangered or violated. Also, when blacks fought for equal access they didn’t fight those on the grounds that they were really white. Gay rights isn’t based on homosexuals declaring themselves straight. A trans person is not the same sex as a cis gendered person. But we are being forced to ignore the difference. Pretend it doesn’t exist. And we differentiate bathrooms based on sex, not gender. We as a society recognize that the sexes (not the genders) are raised with a level of expected privacy based on their sex. To just take it away in one swoop without regard to the emotional effect of the population is disrespectful and above all NOT a function of our government. The government is our representation, not our overload. Our physical bodies give us a specific life experience. There is no way a man could possibly understand how it feels to be a woman. He has no experience in it. All he could achieve is speculation and buy into what society has deemed is an acceptable representation of what a woman is, should be and allowed to do. And vise versa. No change or solution can be obtained from external sources. If you have rejected your body, your very identity, no external validation in the world will change your discomfort. It is bandaging, but reality will follow you every moment of the day. The solution is to uncover WHY you have rejected your body. Even one of the most Trans friendly country in the world Sweden, reports continue dysphoria post op and suicidal thoughts. Rather than trying to get everyone to accept something that counters science and what they see with their own eyes perhaps we should promote balance through respect of everyone’s rights of bodily privacy. Gender Neutral bathrooms assures privacy for everyone or just labeling all bathrooms as gender neutral. It is at least honest in that no one can expect privacy based on one’s sex. Plus it relieves a business’s and government from policing someone’s “identity” especially since identity is so fluid.

You’re making an assumption I have rejected my body.. What I reject is the constant depression and rage I feel when I am not on my hormones.. You are correct in that that AMAB aren’t socialized as women. My hormonal situation doesn’t care. I feel a baseline of serenity when I am on my hormones. Likewise.. You could never understand what it felt like to be trans.. That is… Unless you took female hormones.. Your hormonal system runs stably on testosterone. Mine doesn’t.. You can talk about lived experience all you like.. My lived experience is that I am happy on estrogen, and I am overwhelmingly depressed without estrogen. My lived experience is that I have MORE self esteem and feelings of self worth when I am expressinging myself as a woman. My lived experience is that people genuinely did not like me as a male and for good reason. My lived experience is that my life is a thousand times more fulfilling than before I transitioned.. and I haven’t had any surgeries.. nor am I extremely inclined to get any except for that which decreases the testosterone in my system. You aren’t being “forced” to do anything except mind your own business.

Actually.. You bring up a good point.. there are doors on the stalls.. So what actually is your issue beyond bigotry? It’s clear that you are a bigot because you have attempted to dehumanize people who don’t believe as you do.. You believe I am sub human because my hormonal system is different than the majority of peoples? Do you also refer to people with other medical conditions as it? I believe you are sub human because you lack the compassion and empathy that even cats and dogs have.

They haven’t.. and you can’t pull a study out of thin air that says rape stats have gone up. I have used the women’s facilities exclusively since my doctor signed off on my change of marker designation. I have never once considered exposing myself to children or raping women while peeing.. If you enter a restroom and think about the rape of women.. perhaps you should seek professional help.

Do trans men regularly threaten bodily harm to you when you use the restroom? Have you considered that the reason you imagine men assaulting your family is because you are a man? Did you know that you have more male hormones going through you than pretty much any trans woman? Let me guess.. You voted for trump… a person with multiple rape allegations who has publicly stated he wanted to have sex with his daughter.. It’s entirely likely that you are more of a threat to the women in your life than any trans woman.. I have never assaulted another woman in a restroom.. But it sounds like you would go out of your way to assault people who are only interested in evacuating their digestive system. I know many trans women.. But the only people I have ever been threatened by.. or felt threatened by.. were cis men.. I truly hope a man such as yourself follows me into the ladies restroom. I would take a beating to illustrate the absurd fear mongering men like you have bought into.

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